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Fun with Subtitles
We have just finished up the Multimedia Usability Project Meeting here in France. I am sure there will be more general wrap up coverage of the meeting shortly… but I wanted to share a hack we worked here.
For a long time people have requested subtitle support for mediaWiki embed videos and at this meeting we [...]
Usability Beta Enhancements
Thanks for trying out the usability beta. Close to 280,000 people tried out the usability beta and about 220,000 people continue using it. One of the most-frequently reported frustration about the beta was that (1) watch/unwatch was hidden under the drop-down menu and (2) tabs overlaps when the browser is scaled down or [...]
Wikipedia Mobile October Update
We have a lot of cool stuff that got pushed out today. I’m really excited to tell you about it. First of all, Derk-Jan Hartman (github: hartman) has been hard at work bringing us NetFront support. NetFront is the HTML rendering backend to many devices. Here is a list of the devices that Derk’s hard [...]
New Media Features Gadget
I would like to announce that some of the new media features are now available in gadget form on Wikimedia Commons and the English Wikipedia. These include a new ogg player, the add media wizard, and firefogg upload support. I hope having these components in gadget form will enable some more testing and feedback :)
Getting [...]
Click Tracking on Edit Toolbar deployed
After many a hearty SQL battle, we finally have click tracking deployed on the wikimedia projects!
What’s being tracked?
Which buttons are clicked on the toolbar during editing
What information is being recorded?
The button clicked
Image renaming fix
Fixed an ugly internal caching bug which could break renamed image redirects on Commons being accesses from other non-English sites. Hopefully that’s most of those solved now. :)
SVG in Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons
Slides for my talk at SVG Open available for download as PDF or Keynote source. (I can make my test corpus available as well — let me know if interested!)
– brion
Babaco is ready for tasting
Preview of the second set of usability features, Babaco, are available through user preferences. The first feature is the article outline in the right hand side of the editing area. The outline updates itself in real-time as you type the headers in the articles and provides links which when clicked will jump you to the [...]
SVG Open
I’m hanging out down in Mountain View for the SVG Open conference this weekend, to speak a bit on how we use and plan to use SVG at Wikimedia and to get up to date on the state of the art. I’ll post my full talk slides on Sunday after my talk…
One of the most [...]
MediaWiki’s new discussion system in testing on Wikimedia Labs
I’m very excited to announce that LiquidThreads, the next-generation discussion system that I’ve spent the last few months developing for the Wikimedia Foundation, is now in beta testing on liquidthreads.labs.wikimedia.org.
The current